Interview
Sir Simon Rattle on Haydn’s “Creation”
Season opening 2017: Simon Rattle conducts Haydn’s “Creation”
Simon Rattle is one of the outstanding Haydn conductors of our time. To open his last season as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, he presents Haydn’s oratorio The Creation, which combines groundbreaking harmonies, humorous tone painting and powerful choruses to form a spectacular cosmic panorama. The acclaimed performance showed all the musical facets of the work: its power as well as its delicate details.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Elsa Dreisig
Mark Padmore
Florian Boesch
© 2017 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
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